Quotes About Author

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

I am pro-life, and I will be appointing pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.